1444. Love Peace, Never Seek Hegemony
Of course they weren't colleagues!
Wells Black, who had once again been misunderstood by Li Bai, said with a wry smile, "There are many mysterious things in human history, Earth's history, and the natural world that science cannot explain. We're an academic organization dedicated to studying them."
Li Bai couldn't help but complain, "That's not scientific!"
How could so many people enjoy studying mysterious things? Weren't they afraid of opening Pandora's box and unleashing powers that shouldn't exist?
As far as he knew, humanity itself was a mysterious Pandora's box, hiding enormous secrets. Some truly terrifying beings had already been confirmed to exist.
"Because science can't explain them yet. Let me give you a couple of examples: the Hutchison Effect and the Bauderès Phenomenon."
Wells Black, who claimed to be a member of the Saint's Association, offered a hint, hoping Li Bai would understand what they studied.
The Hutchison Effect came from a mad scientist's experiments, while the Bauderès Phenomenon was simply a haunting. Both had genuinely occurred, yet science still couldn't fully explain either one. At best, people could offer a rough conjecture pointing to zero-point energy and electromagnetic fields, and linking them to Einstein's Unified Field Theory, but there was no more detailed evidence.
"Mm!" Li Bai nodded solemnly, then said, "Never heard of them!"
He only knew the Black Forest Illusion, Aronson Effect, placebo effect, Barnum Effect, halo effect, Hercules Effect, Mars Effect, Heraclitus Effect, Zygonic Effect, Washington Cooperation Law...and a whole bunch of other theories, explanations, and case studies. Weren't they just stuffing things with fancy technical terms? As if anyone couldn't do that!
He was a psychiatrist, for crying out loud, with martial arts and magic on the side. Between treating patients and keeping the Demoness under control every